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Three decades ago on October 20, a young Trent Reznor unleashed Pretty Hate Machine, blending new wave synths with industrial rhythms and rock guitars to help define a new sound. The Nine Inch N...

https://www.spin.com/2019/10/best-nine-inch-nails-album-poll/

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame announced its nominees for induction in 2020 on Tuesday, October 15. Of the 16 artists nominated this year, nine of them are first-timers. And for both The Notorious...

https://www.spin.com/2019/10/rock-hall-2020-induction-poll/

From the Beatles to Iggy Pop, here are rock and roll's best television moments of all-time.

https://www.spin.com/2019/10/best-rock-roll-television-moments/

A large section of a Hard Rock Hotel under construction at the edge of New Orleans’ historic French Quarter collapsed Saturday morning amid dust and debris, leaving at least one person dead and...

https://www.spin.com/2019/10/hard-rock-hotel-collapse-new-orleans/

Revisit our May 1987 cover story on Joan Jett.

https://www.spin.com/featured/joan-jett-good-music-may-1987-cover-story-the-promised-land/

The Killers  seem to be taking a cue from Kanye with their latest Instagram and Twitter posts. On October 8, the band shared a picture of a whiteboard with what appears to be a tracklist fo...

https://www.spin.com/2019/10/killers-tease-new-music/

A version of this story was originally published on October 9, 2014. In case you haven't heard, SPIN was featured prominently in a 2014 episode of South Park exactly five years ago. Normally, we...

https://www.spin.com/2019/10/south-park-spin-lorde-parody-episode/

This article originally appeared in the August 1986 issue of SPIN. It was one of those humid summer days in 1979 when the air on the Bowery was filled with the foul odor of week-old garbage. A ho...

https://www.spin.com/featured/the-ramones-animal-boy-august-1986-interview-were-a-happy-family/

This article originally appeared in the May 1986 issue of SPIN. "Huge brains, small necks, weak muscles, and fat wallets—these are the dominant characteristics of the '80s—the generation of s...

https://www.spin.com/featured/hunter-s-thompson-may-1986-interview-fear-and-loathing-in/

The University of Kansas apologized for its risque Late Night at the Phog event in which rapper Snoop Dogg performed, stripper poles were wheeled onto the Allen Fieldhouse floor and fake money w...

https://www.spin.com/2019/10/university-of-kansas-apologizes-for-risque-snoop-dogg-show/